Bonnie Bishop to Perform

At 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 10, at Angel Park, Thirty Tigers recording artist and Grammy-winning songwriter Bonnie Bishop will perform. A veteran touring musician with five records behind her, Bishop has seen her songs covered by Bonnie Raitt and performed on the tv show Nashville. Her sixth album, Ain’t Who I Was, appeared on May 27 to remarkable acclaim, including strong reviews from the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and American Songwriter. The Texas native’s roots are in Country music, but the current record—produced by Dave Cobb, fresh from albums with Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, and Jason Isbell—moves toward R&B and draws persistent comparisons to Dusty Springfield’s Dusty in Memphis. The Sewanee show, interrupting a very busy tour, will be a homecoming for Bishop, who is a creative writing student in the Sewanee School of Letters. The School of Letters is sponsoring the event, which is free and open to all.